Melitaea deserticola: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Melitaea
- Species
- Melitaea deserticola
- Scientific Name
- Melitaea deserticola
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Melitaea deserticola
Melitaea deserticola, the desert fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt), Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
The larvae feed on Linaria aegyptiaca, Plantago media, Anarrhinum fruticosum and Anarrhinum species.
...Melitaea deserticola in languages:
- Dutch
- Woestijnparelmoervlinder
- English
- Desert Fritillary
- French
- Mélitée de l'érémial
- French
- Mélitée éméricole
- German
- Wüstenscheckenfalter
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Melitaea abbas
- Melitaea abyssinica
- Melitaea acentria
- Melitaea acraeina
- Melitaea aetherie
- Melitaea agar
- Melitaea ala
- Melitaea alatauica
- Melitaea ambigua
- Melitaea amoenula
- Melitaea arcesia
- Melitaea arduinna
- Melitaea asteria
- Melitaea asteroida
- Melitaea athalia
- Melitaea athene
- Melitaea aurelia
- Melitaea bellona
- Melitaea britomartis
- Melitaea casta
- Melitaea caucasogenita
- Melitaea celadussa
- Melitaea cinxia
- Melitaea collina
- Melitaea consulis
- Melitaea deione
- Melitaea deserticola
- Melitaea diamina
- Melitaea didyma
- Melitaea didymina
- Melitaea didymoides
- Melitaea eberti
- Melitaea enoch
- Melitaea fascelis
- Melitaea fergana
- Melitaea gina
- Melitaea higginsi
- Melitaea ignasiti
- Melitaea interrupta
- Melitaea irka
- Melitaea ismeria
- Melitaea jezabel
- Melitaea kuchi
- Melitaea latonigena
- Melitaea ludmilla
- Melitaea lunulata
- Melitaea marsilia
- Melitaea menetriesi
- Melitaea minerva
- Melitaea ninae
- Melitaea ogygia
- Melitaea ornata
- Melitaea orsa
- Melitaea parthenoides
- Melitaea perse
- Melitaea persea
- Melitaea phoebe
- Melitaea plotina
- Melitaea protomedia
- Melitaea pseudornata
- Melitaea pseudosibina
- Melitaea punica
- Melitaea robertsi
- Melitaea romanovi
- Melitaea sarvistana
- Melitaea saxatilis
- Melitaea scotosia
- Melitaea sibina
- Melitaea sindura
- Melitaea solona
- Melitaea sutschana
- Melitaea syriaca
- Melitaea telona
- Melitaea transcaucasica
- Melitaea trivia
- Melitaea turanica
- Melitaea turkmanica
- Melitaea varia
- Melitaea vedica
- Melitaea wiltshirei
- Melitaea yuenty
- Melitaea yugakuana